"While Donald Trump deploys troops to the Mexican border and orders them to shoot immigrants who throw rocks, many people in this migrant caravan in fact already fled US government-fueled violence in Central America. Eduardo Garcia discusses impunity for Border Patrol killings and US-backed instability in Honduras and Guatemala..."

"A caravan of about 4,000 migrants is heading north through Mexico. Their journey has become heavily politicized. The CBC's senior correspondent Susan Ormiston describes what she's seen during her travels with the migrants..."

Grandma and granddaughter making the trek up Mexico as President Trump arms the border against 'invasion'

"Sharp barbed wire fences are being erected along the US-Mexico border as thousands of US troops, supported by drones and choppers, prepare to repel what the country's commander-in-chief called a looming migrant 'invasion."

"The Honduran, Guatemalan, El Salvadoran and Nicaraguan workers who set off from southern Mexico to begin the two-week trek by foot to the US border are fleeing gang violence and economic conditions in their own countries that are the outcome of decades of interventions by American imperialism, supported by both Democrats and Republicans. Obama, the 'deporter-in-chief' oversaw the removal of more than 3 million workers from the US, more than all other presidents combined..."

"They're mad, desperate, there's a lot of sick people,' says human rights official. As this caravan continues its arduous journey up from southern Mexico, it has become propaganda for politicians thousands of kilometres away..."

To All Active Duty Soldiers: Your Commander in Chief is Lying to You...

The Canadian govenment as annonced it wiil expel some 10,000 "illegals". These people are already here. Why such Canadian righteous anger over the 6,000 Central Americans ?

Answer: Trump

What are you talking about? Most here are on the same side with respect to both countries.

Well, I think it's probably safe to say that there is more Canadian media coverage of the caravan, who as of yet have not been expelled from anywhere, than there is of the people who are being expelled from Canada. And Rikardo is saying that this is because Trump is a headline-grabber, whereas Trudeau and company just don't get that kind of attention.

That said, the Canadian government hasn't threatened to use military force to get the 10 000 out of Canada. Though I suppose if they all refused to leave, things could get pretty rambunctious.

Canada could and should admit these people, especially as their exodus is largely due to imperialist and economic policies imposed by wealthy countries like Canada. This must stop and it is a developmental task of Canadian progressives to mobilize to end these destructive foreign policies by their government. As well, those who make it here must be accommodated.

"Canada will welcome nearly one million immigrants over the next three years, according to the multi-year strategy tabled by the Liberal government today in what it calls 'the most ambitious immigration levels in recent history..."

Given the existing woeful conditions where I live as a poor person in Toronto, minimal affordable housing, sky-rocketing rents, a labour market and manufacturing jobs decimated by 'free-trade', austerity policies and a social system in tatters, unless there is a massive change in the provision of resources to meet this challenge and ensure adequate support for the newcomers and those most impacted, this planned influx will be nothing less than catastrophic.